The Wilhelm Scream may be the most famous movie sound effect of all time: [display_podcast] It’s a scream that’s been used in movies for over 50 years, becoming a sort of inside joke among filmmakers. It was used in all six Star Wars movies, Poltergeist, all three Pirates of the Caribbean films, Monty Python and… Read More The Wilhelm Scream: The Amen Break Of Movie Sound Effects
Some interesting footage of Stephen Hobley testing out his DIY laser harp. Says Stephen: The visuals look great, but the sound is out of sync (we’re not film-makers!). In retrospect we should have had more people working on the different parts of the shoot. How tired was I when we shot this? We’d been setting… Read More Laser Harp Test Footage
Beatesthesia is a highly customizable WYSIWYG music visualizer, inspired in motive and design by synesthesia. It’s a free download, but is currently in beta form, so there’s a bit of a learning curve and you may encounter some weirdness. Description: Synesthesia has inspired many works of art. Art that is meant to evoke synesthetic associations… Read More Beatesthesia – Cool New Music Visualizer
The Doepfer CTM64 is a universal contact-to-MIDI interface that can be used as the basis for custom MIDI controllers. Here are a few examples of what people have built using the CTM64: More examples of custom MIDI controllers, including custom DJ controllers for Richie Hawtin & Monolake, are available at the Doepfer site.
Propellerheads has announced a Percussa AudioCubes giveaway for Reason users. To enter the contest, you need to be a Reason 4 owner. Here’s how to enter: Record a video where you tell (in not so many words) us why you upgraded to Reason version 4 and how you feel about it. Send the video to… Read More Propellerheads AudioCubes Giveaway
[display_podcast] Spectrasonics has released the latest of their Omnisphere videos. This episode takes a look at the browser and, in doing so, also takes a look at the history of synth browsers. Kudos to Spectrasonics for making us drool over a software synthesizer six months before it’s going to be released. These are some of… Read More The Omnisphere Browser
The ATTIGO TT is a futuristic DJ controller, created by Scott Hobbs, a student at Dundee University studying innovative product design. He’s created a touch screen turntable that’s pretty f****** awesome! It lets you loop, sample and scratch wave forms just as you would a record. The size of the touchtable is approximately the same… Read More The Future Of DJing: The Touch Screen Turntable
ArKaos is looking for people to beta test its new VJ software, GrandVJ. We’re extremely glad to offer you the first public beta version of GrandVJ. This version is a demo version that doesn’t allow saving and has a splash screen here and there in the output. There’s a very quick description PDF included in… Read More Beta Test ArKaos GrandVJ
November 16, 2007 lecture by Ge Wang for the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547). In the first part of this talk, Ge presents the design, philosophy, and development of ChucK, a computer music programming language intending to provide a different approach, expressiveness, and thinking with respect to time and parallelism in audio programming… Read More ChucK: A Computer Music Programming Language
This video, from Ableton, is an intro to the new Orchestral Instrument Collection for Live. It’s a little cheesy – but it’s also cool to see it working within Live.
